How many DC books will I be getting come September?

I read some DC books once in a while when I was a kid, but on the whole I was a Marvel girl. The sole DC title I followed was Legion of Superheroes and they weren't particularly affected by any crises, apart from the death of Supergirl, who wasn't a regular character there in any case.

I really didn't start to read DC books until I was an adult, and yes, it was the fault of the internet, why do you ask? :) So it was after the original Crisis reboot when I got my start. My vague childhood memories of Hal and Barry didn't interfere at all with my later appreciation for Kyle and Wally.

So, like my lifelong experience with Marvel, my shorter time with DC has given me a reasonably continuous...continuity. :) Marvel does tweak its history--a 21st-century Iron Man simply couldn't have gotten his start during the Viet Nam war--but he's still Tony Stark, and pretty much everything that's been printed in his comics is still a part of his canon history.

Now, I don't know how others feel about it, but to me the serial aspect of comic books is a great part of its appeal. A comic book or (more modernly) a story arc corresponds, in my mind, with a chapter of a book that I'm still reading. So if I start a new chapter and it tells me to ignore everything that's gone before? I won't be happy. But that's me.

But you know, keep all the Green Lanterns and I'll keep getting GLC. Keep Gail Simone on Secret Six and I'll keep buying it regardless of what happens there. I'll be tremendously disappointed if Superman becomes a bachelor or if Jason Todd is rekilled. (OTOH if Red Hood gets his own book I will probably break my no-floppies rule.)

So am I going to buy 52 DC books a month or the associated trades? Um....nope. Will anyone? I imagine someone will.